Today I finally somewhat fixed the old Java web-camera applet. It really does something very simple. But with Java troubles are always behind the corner.
I couldn’t find a free decent Java IDE, so I downloaded the JBuilder 2005 Enterprise trial. It’s very powerful, but also takes a lot of RAM. Like 200MB or so !!! It allowed me to debug, but the PC was truly crawling. To this let’s add Firefox, which doesn’t seem to like to release memory.. and often I’m with just one simple page open and the browser taking 30-40MB of memory !!
Welcome to the world of C++ and Java bullshit. I have 512MB of memory on my computer but it feels just like when I had 64 several years ago.
The web-camera applet has still some issues. I’m not sure what it is. With all that required multi-threading. It’s really messy. If I could code applets for the web in C, that would save me a lot of time and hidden logical bugs.
Anyhow the Aibo-cam thing now runs the Java applet. The real advantage of that is probably just the random text messages that I wrote a while ago, but that still seem to make sense (aside from the one where I say that I’m 28.. well I was 28 I guess !).
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